Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan is a British writer who was born in 1948 in Aldershot. His father served the military and as such much of McEwan’s childhood was spent in North Africa, Germany and Asia. Upon returning to England he pursued his studies and was awarded a degree in English Literature in 1970 from the prestigious University of Sussex. He continued to follow his passion and became one of the very first graduates from the University of East Anglia’s creative writing course. McEwan married two times, his first ending in 1995 which was followed by a bitter custody battle over his two sons. In 2002 reality became stranger than fiction when McEwan discovered that he had a brother who had been given-up for-adoption in World War II. His mother was married to another man at the time, but was having an affair which resulted in a child. The child was given up for adoption. When her first-husband was killed in the war, McEwan’s mother tied the knot with her lover, which means that both McEwan and the child that was given up have the same parents. The brothers have been in regular contact since their first meeting in 2002.